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100%.
When I think about it for a while, my thoughts always come back to “What is truth? What is a fact? Why do I think my news consumption is more factual than this person’s news consumption?”
I’m not a philosopher, and I think it’s a tricky question to answer. I’ve found myself on the Stanford Philosophy Wiki. There’s a ton of good stuff in there.
Of course, on a practical level, you’re rarely going to be debating “what is a fact?” when you’re arguing with your MAGA relations. My “normal” answer is that I try to get my news from sources that have reputations for fact-checking / rigor (AP / Reuters etc etc).
However, if you’ve spent all your time consuming Fox / Newsmax / AM Radio in the late 90s / aughts, your mental model of AP / Reuters is not my mental model. Anything outside of your right-wing bubble is to be shinned. To you, AP and Reuters do not have a reputation for rigor. They’re part of a liberal conspiracy funded by the government and George Soros to demonize conservatives / brainwash the libs.
It’s a tricky problem. I feel like we’re in an era where the Dawn of the Internet / Social media is analogous to the advent of the printing press. We just don’t know how to handle the firehose of information.
There’s a huge part of me that thinks that recommendation algorithms need to be regulated.
Agreed. I’ve only been to one protest in my time, and the state of the country was nowhere near as dire as it was now.
I’ve been thinking I should get and old pixel and load it up with GrapheneOS, just in case I’m at an event where I’d rather not have my location broadcast.
Do you have any experience with that type of thing?
Is that this tool?
I haven’t heard of it before- is it kind of similar to cryotomator?
I haven’t heard of that competition, but it looks really cool.
Outside of the competition, does your team self host cryptpad?
I ended up paying for a subscription- I wanted to support the development + it being E2E alleviates most of my concerns about storing info in the cloud.
Also, I’m honest with myself to know that cryptpad.fr probably has a better backup setup than my Proxmox mini PC + Synology combo 😅
you’re welcome!
Also, https://www.lawfaremedia.org/ is very good.
On Lemmy:
https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack
On Reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/
From that subreddit, there’s this substack, https://keeptrack.substack.com/p/project-2025-tracker-is-now-live which maintains this site: https://www.project2025.observer/
Here’s another good site: https://www.democracy2025.org/response-center
Actually, here’s a big collection of links that I think are useful for these times: 2025realitycheck.com/
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth
Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink
Specific Suggestions: Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century
How you can protect democracy - by Quinn Raymond
Twenty Lessons On Tyranny - by Timothy Snyder
Democracy 2025 Response Center
How you can protect democracy - by Quinn Raymond
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services | Project Gutenberg
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